Category Archives: Travel

It was a good drive home from Dubuque;  light traffic,  no active construction zones, good weather.   There is one stretch of road, where the highway crossses the state line from Illinois to Indiana, that is always interesting.   This is a … Continue reading →

One might think that hiring a taxi for the trip to the airport would be all that was needed for an easy trip.  One would be wrong. First, hiring a taxi from the hotel…one that has a flat rate, at … Continue reading →

Arrival in London was late;  no driver was there.  I had zero Pounds Sterling, and no cab will take US dollars.   My cell phone does not have international capability.   YIKES.   After 40 minutes of waiting, and trying not to panic,  … Continue reading →

  Northwest outdid themselves for the trip back to Michigan.  After their inability to deliver me to LA three weeks ago, I had actually considered changing my ticket for another airline.  Finances made that a silly idea, so I stuck … Continue reading →

Wow;  what a day.   Noel picked me up at 5:30 a.m. for the 7:10 flight out of S. Bend.  The plan was to change planes in Minneapolis and arrive in LA just before noon.  The reality was significantly different.   At … Continue reading →

  Here I am, back in Michigan.   We had one of those rarities yesterday:  visibility over the Rockies.  They are breathtaking, all that grandeur covered in shimmering white snow.  Once we hit the flats of the plains, however, it was … Continue reading →

  My boarding passes are printed and I’m good to go tomorrow.   I fly out of South Bend; change in Cincinnati, and then on to LA.  Diana tells me it is "cold" there, by which she means 50s at night, … Continue reading →

  Those of you who have read this blog for a while know that last summer I gave up on Northwest Airlines as my preferred carrier.   I had been through several trips worth of delayed flights (weather, mechanical problems, pilot … Continue reading →